1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with well-established precedent that adjudicating the effects of a foreign sovereign's acts is not a determination of the validity of the acts, but rather is a determination of whether the act occurred at all.

2. Whether the Fifth Circuit's improper inferences impermissibly expands the scope of the Rule 12(b)(6) standards to dismiss and deprives Petitioners of the one forum available in the United States to recover stolen war art taken from Petitioner's forebears by the Nazi regime and now located in the United States.

Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with precedent regarding adjudication of foreign sovereign acts and whether the court's improper inferences impermissibly expand Rule 12(b)(6) standards